Florida is on track to privatize 30 state prisons.
The advantage of this move would be almost certainly more efficient and cost-effecting incarceration.
The disadvantage, in my view, is the creation of business incentives for creating crimes & keeping people incarcerated. Now "corrections corporations" will lobby government to create more laws and harsher sentences.
The state of the laws in this country is bad now, but would privatizing prisons make things better or worse? Discuss.
The advantage of this move would be almost certainly more efficient and cost-effecting incarceration.
The disadvantage, in my view, is the creation of business incentives for creating crimes & keeping people incarcerated. Now "corrections corporations" will lobby government to create more laws and harsher sentences.
The state of the laws in this country is bad now, but would privatizing prisons make things better or worse? Discuss.
Bidding begins to privatize prisons in South Florida
The fastest privatization venture ever undertaken by the state of Florida took a big step forward Monday when the state formally sought plans from private firms to operate all prisons in an 18-county region in South Florida.
In an effort to cut costs, Gov. Rick Scott and the Legislature set a Jan. 1, 2012, deadline to privatize 30 state prisons, road camps and work release centers.